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bookstores and online retail outlets. Thanks for listening. going to be talking about developing a spiritual practice to withstand these shitty times we're living in.

Shitt times.

Shit times.

And how can we have a practice that conditions a sense of

sense of resilience a sense of strength to put up with all this nonsense going on.

While we are, by any, I think, measure living in trying times in terms of just the fact that experts are predicting looming environmental catastrophe

with ever encroaching dates.

The most recent UN climate paper suggested 2030 will start seeing devastating

climate change such as entire regions of the earth will become uninhabitable and of course devastating

weather events from droughts to hurricanes.

And if that wasn't enough to bring you down,

then we have the corresponding growth of fascism across the globe even in countries

traditionally associated with a degree of standardized democracy and individual rights such as the country

that we live in today. On the other hand we are lucky to be living in the first time in human history where a successful

model that outlines in a compelling and verifiable way what our core psychological needs are to establish

emotional regulation and a sense of balance,

established through until decades of theory and research.

We have finally stumbled upon attachment theory, which is a massive

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